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costa towards apex; a terminal series of black points; cilia 

 fuscous and grej'. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area 

 broadly suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia white, with a 

 brownish line at base ; the underside white, the costal and 

 termiiial areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point. 



5 . Basal half of tegulte, costal and postmedial markings of 

 fore wing grey ; hind wing more suffused with brown. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Brandon, 1 S ; U.S.A., Montana, 

 Colorado, Arizona. Exp. 36 millim. 



564. Etixoa manethiisa. 



Agrotis manethusa, Dnice, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 284, pi. 27. f. 9 

 (1889). 



Head and thorax dai'k purple-brown mixed with black : meta- 

 thoracic crest pale : abdomen pale, dorsally tinged with fuscous, 

 ventrally irrorated with black, the anal tuft fulvous : a lateral 

 series of blackish spots. Fore wing purplish fuscous ; the costal 

 area whitish to the postmedial line, the veins on it defined by 

 brown ; a black streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line double, 

 black, on costal area represented by two striae, then filled in with 

 luteous and angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 claviform black ; orbicular and reniform pale rufous defined by 

 black, and with more or less white annuli, the former small, round, 

 the latter produced at upper extremity ; the cell before and between 

 them black, and the reniform connected by black streaks with the 

 postmedial line, which is double, black, filled in with luteous, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in 

 discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; the subtermiual line in- 

 distinct, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved in discal and 

 submedian folds and with black streaks crossing it between veins 4 

 and 6 ; a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia ochreous, with 

 two brown lines through them. Hind wing semihyaline white, 

 tinged with brown towards margins ; the veins brown ; cilia whitish, 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of brown strise on 

 the veins. 



Hah. Mexico City {Hoerje), 2 $ type, Durango (Becker), 1 d" , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Ed2^. 42 millim. 



565. Euxoa acclivis. 



Agrotis acclivis, Morr. Ami. Lye. Jfat. Hist. K". Y. xi. p. 93 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 79. 

 Agrotis opaca, Harv. Eull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 72, pi. 3. f. 1 (1875). 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and ochreous ; 

 thorax ochreous and rufous, with dark stripes on upper edge of 

 patagia, the scales being tipped with grey ; pectus ochreous and 

 dark brown ; the legs dark brown, with ochreous rings on tarsal 

 joints. Fore wing fuscous brown, with broad ochreous fascia on 

 costal area to end of cell, at base extending to submedian fold, 



